On October 2, 2017, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an event which occurred in the OCME Operations Center. The event involves a cremation request that was approved in error.
On September 19, 2017, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an error which occurred in the autopsy suite. The error involves a contamination event which resulted in an erroneous DNA match notification.
On February 27, 2017, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an error relating to the postmortem testing process of the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory. This error resulted in an incorrect result reported by Forensic Toxicology.
On July 14, 2015, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an error which resulted in an incorrect Specimen ID number entered into the DNA HITS application, software that matches DNA profiles and notifies agencies of positive matches.
On September 25, 2015, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an error which resulted in an incorrectly reported result from the OCME's Department of Forensic Biology.
On July 31, 2015, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an error which resulted in an incorrectly reported result from OCME's Department of Forensic Biology.
On February 13, 2015, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an error on November 14, 2015 which resulted in an incorrectly reported result from OCME's Forensic Toxicology Laboratory.
On February 13, 2015, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) Quality Assurance Director was informed of an error from October 16, 2014 which resulted in an incorrectly reported result from OCME's Forensic Toxicology Laboratory.